260 The Names of Places in Wiltshire. 



§ 18) J and like it is derived from cnwc, Irish and Gaelic cnoc, 

 which means a " round hill/^ In the north west part of the 

 county, close by Sopworth, we have the names Knock, and 

 Knock-Down, which seem to be another form of the same 

 word.^ 

 Lacock. ") Written Lacoc and Lacham in Domesday/ the one 

 Lackham. -' signifying the "place of lakes, '^ the other the "home- 

 stead by the lake/^ The original root is the Cornish lacca 

 (= a pit, or well). In Welsh we meet with llwch (olim laich) 

 meaning a " lake/'' The name Lake itself occurs as that of 

 an estate near Woodford, a few miles from Salisbury. Com- 

 pare the Latin lacus. As regards the termination of the 

 former word, it may be observed that many names of places 

 in Wales end in og, which was formerly oc. Thus in Meri- 

 onethshire, we find a hill called Hinog, — a farm termed 

 Rhiwedog, — and a place designated Yrugog, literally " the 

 heathy/'' Friddog is given as meaning " abounding in 

 copses/^ The termination oe seems to be adjectival, like the 

 Latin us or um, and occasionally also a diminutive. In 

 Cornish its equivalent seems to be ic or ick, thus Bryanick 

 means " the hilly ,'^ Carnick " the rocky " — -place being in 

 each case understood. See Cambrian Register, 1796, and 

 Pryce's Vocabulary. 

 27. LiDDiNGTON. Spelt in ancient charters Zidentune. In the 

 Shaftesbury Chartulary,^ where we have the boundaries given, 

 mention is made of a stream called Lyden, from which, though 

 the name is now lost, this place derives its designation. There 

 is a stream in Somerset called the Lyde, which rises in Norton 

 St. Philip, and forming a rivulet flows by Wellow into the 



> There is, on the Somersetshire herder, about three miles from Bradford-on- 

 Avon, a place called Conk-well. In the land-limits of Bathford, the next 

 parish, contained in the Chartulary of Bath Abhey (Cod. Dipl., iii., 451), we 

 tave Cunuca-leage, which shews that this name also is derived from a similar 

 gowrce as CoHpcK, and Kkook. 



* Wilts Domesday, 83, 101. 

 3 Cod. Dipl. 386. 



